Minnesota Composers Gallery |
This is an historical archive for streaming the original MN Composers Gallery Radio Programs so you may listen to the guest composers and their music. This website also includes the Radio broadcast shows of the first West Banks School of Music Jazz Composers Series 1985 which I also engineered and produced for KFAI FM Community Radio.
Eventually more details on music, performers, air dates etc.. will be added over time. I've also or soon will include some tapes that are in a raw unedited form; such as prerecorded interviews and other such source materials. Sometimes that is all I have left of the program that might not of been recorded when aired. The composer's consistent astute discourse, as well as their excellent music is why these programs are archived here for your listening pleasure.
MN Composers Gallery Intro-Outro theme:
(Music composed by Richard Byron Strunk with sound effects by Eric 'Barney' Peterson)
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MCG 1985-08-08 Carl Bergman - 33 min. |
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Meditations on the River (3 movts) |
| Winter Rhapsody - Oboe and Piano |
| String Trio (3 movts) - 1985-08-12 |
Today, Fritz Bergmann is the Senior Director of tpt National Productions, managing operations, planning and production. Before joining tpt National Productions, Bergmann served as Director of Institutional Relations at Minnesota Public Radio | American Public Media from 2001-2008. Prior to that, he spent 13 years in various leadership roles with the American Composers Forum.
Fritz Bergman is married to Kathryn Nobbe a painter and mixed media artist based in St. Paul, Minnesota where she earned her MFA in Studio Arts from the University of Minnesota. She was awarded a scholarship to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture where she studied with Connie Fox, Leon Golub, William King, Jacob Lawrence, Judy Rifka and Terry Winters. Ms. Nobbe has created a number of public artworks including a large-scale outdoor mural for the Pillsbury House in Minneapolis, which involved a unique dialogue and collaboration with the local community. Other projects include a set design for the new music opera Mirabell’s Book of Numbers, by composer Marjorie Hess and writer James Merrill and a "painting performance" in collaboration with composer Homer Lambrecht and the Ancia Quartet. She also produced a series of paintings for Eugene Garber's award-winning novel, The Historian, published by Milkweed Editions.
Fritz Bergmann makes his home in St. Paul, Minnesota with his wife Kathryn Nobbe, a painter, and their sons Hardt and Colin.
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The 1st year of the MN composers Gallery was produced and hosted by Eric 'Barney' Peterson & Richard Byron Strunk; later, only by Richard Byron Strunk. 1985 - 1989 On KFAI "Fresh Air" FM Radio
Quick thank you to Composer Randall Davidson who originally encouraged this idea and Jody Williams who was instrumental in its progressive improvement as well as thanks to The American Composers forum staff, Warren Park and the West Bank School of Music plus countless other composers, musicians and music lovers that made this show possible.
All music is owned and belongs sololy to this music's composer; all rights belong to the composers and the music that is provided here as an historical archeive; and visitors to this archeive may only stream and listen to this music.
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